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You edit images to correct distortions, mainly when processing photos of documents (including from mobile devices) and scans with complex backgrounds that impede recognition and data extraction, such as certificates and passports. This stage improves recognition results for low-quality images.

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Open the image enhancement panel

The image enhancement panel lets an Operator create a sequence of editing actions that are applied to pages one by one, from top to bottom. To open it, use one of the following ways:
  • Click the Enhance Image button on the image editing toolbar.
  • Select Enhance Image on the Page menu.
  • Select Enhance Image on a page’s context menu.
To automatically edit a flow of images, see Image enhancement profiles.

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Enhance an image

1

Select an image

In the batch window, select the image to process. It opens in the image window.
2

Select the editing tools

On the image enhancement panel, turn on the tools you need with the toggle to the right of each action. See Image editing tools for what each tool does.
3

Set the sequence of actions

The order can matter, for example, when you need to adjust brightness and contrast before removing color elements.Some actions have a fixed position, but you can reposition others:
  • Hover over the vertical ellipsis to the left of the action name, then click and hold the left mouse button and move the action.
  • Select an action, hold Shift, and move it with the up and down arrow keys.
4

Apply the changes

Click Apply to apply the changes, or Reset to discard them.
To apply editing changes automatically when you select an action, enable Auto Apply. Auto-apply takes some time.
After any editing action, you can restore the original image.

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Image editing tools

To change the background color that appears beyond the edges of the image during deskewing, set the DeskewColor value under the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY\ScanStationFC\4.0\Shell\PageView] registry subkey to redComp + greenComp*256 + blueComp*256*256. If the value is unspecified or set to 4294967295, the background color is determined automatically.